USB Loader Releases
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USB Loader Releases
| Configurable USB Loader +GUI | CoverFloader (WiiCoverFlow) | WiiFlow | USB Loader mrc | NeoGamma | uLoader by Hermes | USB LoaderGX | |||||||||||||
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| Homepage | Here | Here | Here | Here | Here | Here | Here | ||||||||||||
| Changelog | Here | None | Here | Here | Here | Here | Here | ||||||||||||
| Current Version | 62 | 1.3(r1062) | 2.2 RC1 (R304) | v14 | R8 Final (R9 Beta 47) | 5.1E | 2.0r1039 | ||||||||||||
| Release Date | Dec 22, 2010 | August 6, 2010 | Nov 30, 2010 | April 28, 2010 | Oct 9, 2010 | April 9, 2010 | Jan 9, 2011 | ||||||||||||
| Coders | oggzee, usptactical | Beardface, scognito, f1she4rs, LoudBob, GC@BB, afour | r-win, miigotu, hulkhodn | Marc | WiiPower | Hermes | Neorame, WiiShizza, Hungyip, nIxxx, dimok, giantpune and cyrex | ||||||||||||
| Based On | Waninkoko 1.5 Kwiirk yal Hermes Ultimate NeoGamma |
Waninkoko 1.5 | Waninkoko 1.5 | Waninkoko 1.5 | WiiGator Gamma 0.3 Kwiirk yal |
Waninkoko's cios 249 kwiirk's modded cios 222 Hermes' modded cIOS with mloader |
Waninkoko v1.1 and v1.5 Kwiirk FishEars LibWiiGui | ||||||||||||
| Hardware Supported | |||||||||||||||||||
| USB/SD | Both | USB | Both | USB | Both | Both | USB | ||||||||||||
| Interface Options | |||||||||||||||||||
| Game Listed | Configurable | Unlimited | Unlimited | Configurable | 1 | 15 Channels | 9 with Scrollbar | ||||||||||||
| Cover / Box Art | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Background Image | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | background.png | ||||||||||||
| Background Music | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Wiimote Pointer Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Transparency | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | ||||||||||||
| WideScreen | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Change the Titlename with txt file | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Custom Layout | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Cover Auto Resize both 4:3/16:9 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Game sorting | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Game/Video Mode Patches | |||||||||||||||||||
| Game Language Select | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Manual Video Force | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Ocarina (Cheat Engine) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Ocarina TXT(Cheat Engine) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Child-Proof | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Parental Control, Specific Titles |
Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Individual Game Settings | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Update / Online Functions | |||||||||||||||||||
| Automatic Box Art / Cover Download | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Auto Update | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Fixes | |||||||||||||||||||
| SorgFix | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown | No | Yes | No | ||||||||||||
| LoPsT Mod (HDD Timeout) | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Other USB devices | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Other features | |||||||||||||||||||
| Add Game With/Without Update Partitions |
Yes | Unknown | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Multiple WBFS partitions | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| cIOS mloader support | Yes | Unknown | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| cMIOS support | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Support for waninkokos cios rev13 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Support for cios 222 3.0 (v4) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Use a FAT32 partition to store settings | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| IOS Reload Block | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Alternative .dol from disc | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Alternative .dol from SD | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Alternative .dol from USB | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| External EHCI Modules Support | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Banner Sound | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Starting games from a FAT32 partition | Yes (.wbfs) | No | Yes (.wbfs) | No | No | Yes (.ciso) | Yes (.wbfs) | ||||||||||||
| Can read split game files from a FAT32 partition | Yes (.wbf1) | No | Yes (.wbf1) | No | No | No | Yes (.wbf1) | ||||||||||||
| Starting games from an NTFS partition | Yes (.wbfs, .iso) | No | Yes (.wbfs, .iso) | No | No | No | Yes (.wbfs) | ||||||||||||
| BCA Protection support | Yes (.bca file) | No | Yes | No | Partial (only NSMB) | Yes (iso and .txt database) | Yes (.bca file) | ||||||||||||
| Install a game disc to a hard drive partition | Yes (WBFS, FAT, NTFS unreliable) | No | Yes (WBFS, FAT, NTFS reliable) | No | No | Yes (WBFS) | Yes (WBFS, FAT, NTFS unreliable) | ||||||||||||
| Starting game discs from Wii drive | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Starting game discs from external USB DVD reader | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | ||||||||||||
| Starting game files burnt onto DVD | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes (.ciso) | No | ||||||||||||
| NAND Emulation (Savegames/DLC) | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | ||||||||||||
| NAND Emulation (Wiiware/VC) | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | ||||||||||||
| Channels/Forwarders | |||||||||||||||||||
| Wii Channel Download | Forwarder or Channel | Forwarder | Channel and Priiloader | None | Filetrip - Channel | Forwarder | Forwarder or Channel | ||||||||||||
| Configurable USB Loader +GUI | CoverFloader (WiiCoverFlow) | WiiFlow | USB Loader mrc | NeoGamma | uLoader by Hermes | USB LoaderGX | |||||||||||||
Features Explanation
Interface Options
- USB/SD Loader : Load Wii games from USB device and/or SD card
- Game List: Number of games displayed at once
- Cover / Box Art: Display Wii game's Cover
- Background Image: Name of the background picture if it can be changed
- Background Music
- WiiMote Pointer Support
- Transparency: support alpha channel or transparency for themes, backgrounds and cover images
- Widescreen: Proper support for widescreen TVs
- Change the titlename with txt file: Read the game's name from a file instead of wbfs partition
- Custom Layout: Able to change location of box art, games list, etc.
- Cover auto Resize 4:3/16:9 : Automatically detect widescreen and resize the cover. No need to download different cover size.
Game/Video Mode Patches
- Game Language Select
- Video Mode: user can choose what video mode to use: PAL/NTSC
- Child Proof: Disable install / remove options
- Parental Control, Only Show Games Flagged as Appropriate
- Ocarina: Cheats for wii games which have to be activated by creating a GCT file with another utility
- Ocarina TXT: Cheats for Wii games (no GCT creation needed, and individual cheat activation/deactivation can be made from within USB loader)
Update / Online Functions
- Automatic Boxart Download
- Auto Update: Automatic download of the latest version
Fixes
- Sorg Fix: Display more names, navigation with left/right, no TV mode change
- LoPsT Mod (HDD Timeout): Give hard drive more time to start
- Other USB devices: Able to use other devices than USB disk (microphones, rock band instruments, etc)
Other features
- Add Game With / Without Update Partition, Not needed with most games, but may be used in the future official release to repair certain games.
- Multiple WBFS partitions: Can use a drive with several partitions formatted in WBFS
- cIOS mloader support: Can use new cIOS architecture with external modules (EHCI, etc). included with the application instead of cIOS reinstall
- cMIOS support: Can use cMIOS to load GameCube Games from DVD
- DVD Support: (Start games from DVD) REMOVED, see "Starting games discs from Wii drive" below
- Support for waninkokos cios rev13: Supports rev13a with more compatibility then rev13b
- Support for cios 222 3.0 (v4): Full support for cIOS 222 3.0 new features: EHCI based on interrupts, with supervisor system access, bulk reset option (geater compatibility and stability), boot2v4 compatibility
- Use a FAT32 partition to store settings: Supports FAT32 partition to load covers and config files instead of SD card.
- IOS Reload Block: IOS reload blocking allows to load games like House of The Dead 2
- Alternative .dol from SD: Using an external .dol allows to load games like Red Steel
- Alternative .dol from disc: Extract the alternative .dol from disc image automatically, without the need for WiiScrubber.
- Alternative .dol from USB: Load the alternative .dol from FAT32 partition in USB device.
- External EHCI Modules: Supports loading of different EHCI modules from SD card, increasing compatibility with different disks or USB peripherals
- Starting games from a FAT32 partition: Use a FAT32 partiton to store game files instead of specially formatting a WBFS partition.
- Can read split game files from a FAT32 partition: To avoid the 4GB filesize limit on FAT32 partitions.
- Starting games from an NTFS partition: Use an NTFS partiton to store game files instead of specially formatting a WBFS partition. NTFS support is usually more unreliable that FAT32 support.
- BCA Protection ISO support: Support to read relocated data of BCA protection (like New Super Mario Bros or Avatar) at offset 0x100 in .iso or offset 0x8100 in .ciso. There's a new utility to edit BCA data on .iso or .ciso files. It requires .NET Framework or Mono Framework: Download
- BCA Protection file support: Support to read data of BCA protection from GAMEID.bca file (binary data of size 64 bytes)
- Install a game disc to a hard drive partition: Install a game disc to a hard drive partition as a game file.
- Starting game discs from Wii drive: Use the Wii internal reader to load game discs
- Starting game discs from external USB DVD reader: Using a external USB DVD Reader instead of the Wii internal reader
- Starting game files burnt onto DVD: Read one or more game files burnt onto a single DVD (remark, latest build-in DVD players block this function)
- NAND Emulation (Savegames/DLC): SD or USB disc to store savegames and/or DLC (for example, songs for guitar hero/rock band) using NAND emulation instead of Wii internal flash
- NAND Emulation (Wiiware/VC): Launch/install Wiiware/VC titles using NAND emulation instead of Wii internal flash
Channels/Forwarders/DOL
- Channel: Wii Channel type (Forwarder or Channel) to install on Wii menu.
- HBC app: USBLoader for homebrew channel
Bugs Not Yet Fixed in all loaders
| Name | Description | Examples of (Games) Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patched to 249 Games | Old Games that require patching to IOS249 | Red Steel, Mortal Kombat Armageddon, SSXBlur | Works by using USB loaders with an alternate DOL feature, such as USB Loader GX, uLoader, etc. |
| Reload IOS | Games that Perform a reload of IOS | Metroid Prime 3 | Works by having any DVD in the system. For some, such as Boom Blox Bash Party, works by using USB loaders with prevent reload, such as USB Loader GX, uLoader, etc. |
| 002 Error | Games that produce a 002 Error | Boom Blox Bash Party | Works by using USB loaders with anti-002 error, such as USB Loader GX, uLoader, Wiiflow, etc. |
| USB Devices | Use of Other USB Devices at same time | Wii Speak, LAN Adapter | Fixed by using cIOS with mloader support, such as Hermes' cIOS 222 or 223 |
| BCA Protection | Causes game to crash after few minutes' playing. | New Super Mario Bros Wii | Replace main.dol with fixed one or use a loader with (partial or full) BCA relocated data support. |
